Los Angeles Superior Court Consolidation and Reduction of 2013

In November, the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles Superior Court approved the geographic and caseload consolidation in efforts to avoid a projected budget shortfall in 2013. In addition to the hopes of avoiding the shortfall, the consolidation and reassignment of caseloads are meant to streamline the operations of the entire system. The changes will take full effect fiscal year 2013 in July.

Geographic Consolidation

Among the changes is the removal of traditional court services from 10 courthouses in the system. The courthouses affected include:

Huntington Park

Whittier

Pomona North

Malibu

West Los Angeles

Beverly Hills

San Pedro

Beacon St

Catalina

Kenyon

Caseload Redistribution

Cases that would have been filed at one of the above locations before will now have to be filed at a new location. The map below includes the courthouses that are losing cases (the pins without dots) and the courthouses where they will be reassigned provisionally (the pins of the same color with a dot).

Further, the Los Angeles Superior Court will reduced the number of general purpose courtrooms and focus on providing specialized courtrooms focused on a narrow range of casetypes.

Casetypes

Current Distribution (Number of Courthouses)

Future Distribution

Criminal

27

21

Small Claims

26

6

Landlord-Tenant

26

5

Collections

24

2

Personal Injury

12

1

Limited Civil

24

1

There are additional changes that you should be aware of as well. There will be a master calendar to provide centralized management of civil cases, courtroom staffing will be reduced (i.e. part-time court reporters will be eliminated), and reduction of Alternative Dispute Resolution to statutory minimum among other changes.

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